#dom

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#low #mimic #wisdom

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. ↗

— Plutarch

#better #proper #season #silence #speech

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#actually #always #character #class #come

There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#ethnic #everywhere #hopelessness #racial

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #wealth

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#freedom #must #oxygen #science

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#authority #body #distinguished #distributed #evenly

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever. ↗

— John Pomfret

#america #beacon #broader #control #democracy